BUILD THE FUND DRIVE | IMGpapers 1980

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the early government hospitals, and so on. TGWU 1/734 Construction & Civil BUILDING workers have been the hardest hit by the Tories' savage cuts in public expenditure. Over 70 per cent of all construction and civil engineering contracts are financed by the for schools, roads, bridges, Unemployment in the building industry is 25-30 per cent. Building workers are being made redundant not only on building sites, but in the shipyards, steelworks, the mines building workers, everywhere the Tories' policies are hitting.

Now more than ever we need a revolutionary socialist newspaper with a wide circulation, putting forward the policies needed to get rid of the Thatcher government.

I believe Socialist Challenge is the only paper on the left putting forward these policies at the present time, which is why I urge all trades unionists, socialists to donate as much as possible to the International Marxist Group's fund drive.

Send to: IMG Fund Drive, PO Box 50, London N1. Payable to 'The Week'.

her fight against deportation has gained a lot of publicity. Less HOWI wanted to work but the Department of Employment refused to let ICI SIZE Students from overseas cannot come here unless they guarantee to pay their own fees, Tat students' fees. Many overseas students have report to the police regularly The Home Office sets attendance requirements for overseas students, i not for Every overseas sluuch Is licaica as a potentia 'overstayer' However grisly the details, the Cuse us action that the state is taking is quite logical given its real function - to protect the capitalist social order. Workers have wor within the strictly within structure capitalism.

The British state was built or the wealth extracted from Africa, the West Indies and the Indian subWeller OnCe stolen, is once again being denied e people who created it.

The response of socialists must be to organise against toe racism ot the state, to prevent divisions in the working class, opposing all immiradon controls.

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